I’m going to let you in on a little secret. For the first time in my investing career, I’m aggressively adding gold to my portfolio. I’m not betting the farm on it, and I still have most of my cash in stock and options trading strategies. But in today’s macro climate, I think it only makes sense...Read More

The following is an excerpt from The 10 Best Chinese Stocks You Can Buy. This a precarious time to be investing in China. But many Chinese stocks, particularly in the technology and service sectors, look attractive if you’re willing to deal with some volatility. Even before the coronavirus outbreak, which originated in Wuhan province, relations...Read More

This article first appeared on Money & Markets. It finally happened. On Monday, we saw negative oil prices. The price of West Texas intermediate crude oil dipped into below zero and not by a trivial amount. The price of the front month contract fell below negative $40 per barrel. In movement that should be mathematically...Read More

The following first appeared on Kiplinger’s as The 20 Best Stocks to Buy Now The coronavirus crisis will end. I don’t know when, and you don’t know when. But it will end. We won’t live under lockdown conditions forever. By this stage of the game, you should have already made the defensive moves you were...Read More

To say the coronavirus bear market has been hard on REITs would be an understatement. While the S&P 500 was down about 35% at its lowest point (thus far), the Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund (VNQ) was down 44%. And the damage in many individual REITs was far worse. As an example, triple-net retail REIT...Read More